Electric Bills and All Energy Bills

for Low-income Customers in the Southeast Region in 1997

 

Data from the US DOE Residential Energy Consumption Survey

1997  (Energy Information Administration.Washington D.C. 1999)

 

 

Electricity Customers with Incomes at or below 125% Poverty

in the  Southeast Census Region (AL, MS, KY, TN) 

1.57 million households

 

Electric heat?	Average electric bill	Median electric bill	Average: all bills for all energy	Median:  all bills for all energy	Average energy burden bills/annual income (all fuels)	Median energy burden (all fuels)		Kwh (avg)
Have electric Main heat (36%)	$ 1117	$1011	$1161	$1047	19%		14%	17657
Have other heat (64%)	$699	$657	$1136	$1092	25%		13%	10,060

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Need to update these figures? Use the Heating degree days and coolong degree days below to figure our how many KWH  per degree day, then adjust to the weather in the period of interest by getter recent and expected gas-weighted  HDD an population weighted CDD at http://www.eia.gov/steo/query/other. Use the price per kwh from EIA’s estimates for the period of interest…  or contact us at

 

 

 

	HDD 65 ‘97	CDD 65 ‘97
Have electric Main heat (36%)	3380	1524
Have other heat (64%)	3380	1524